Commercial Landscape Architecture:

Commercial Landscape Architecture is, perhaps most significantly, about teamwork. Commercial projects are almost always collaborative processes, and we greatly enjoy the opportunity to work with other disciplines to explore and create design solutions. In this expanded design milieu, it is particularly important to remember that good design is not something chiseled in granite to be brought down from the mountain by a prophet-designer, but rather is created by the free and respectful exchange and consideration of ideas, something fluid and evolving and something which can always be further elevated by new inspiration and new insight.

Commercial landscape architecture often occurs in a social and political context as well, with city regulations to be obeyed and neighborhood interests and concerns to be assuaged. Again, much of this process is simply about conversation – about asking the right questions and paying attention to the answers. And unlike the more programmatic disciplines of architecture and civil engineering, landscape architecture can focus on mitigating the perceived impacts of projects, buffering and blending a project so that it may fit more seamlessly into the neighborhood. It is our experience that even in the most potentially controversial projects, a proactive outreach campaign which actively engages stakeholders in the design process so that all viewpoints can be heard and, to some degree, accommodated, establishes trust and can build a truly invaluable core of support.